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bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

?Newburyport: The Christmas bird count conducted last weekend included two greater white-fronted geese, 183 wild turkeys, two rough-legged hawks, a glaucous gull, a snowy owl, a red-headed woodpecker, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, an eastern phoebe, three winter wrens, three marsh wrens, 70 eastern bluebirds, seven hermit thrushes, and two common yellowthroats.

?Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary:Reports from the Christmas bird count included 76 northern fulmars, 56 great shearwaters, an Iceland gull, three pomarine jaegers, 38 common murres, 25 razorbills, and an Atlantic puffin.

?Plum Island:At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, there were 123 northern pintails, 165 green-winged teal, a canvasback, three long-billed dowitchers, a snowy owl, a merlin, and a peregrine falcon.

?Rockport: At Andrew’s Point, there were 19 northern fulmars, 275 northern gannets, eight pomarine jaegers, six dovekies, 204 common murres, two thick-billed murres, 292 razorbills, and an Atlantic puffin sighted on Tuesday. There was also an ash-throated flycatcher spotted at Waring Field.

?North Andover: A canvasback, a tufted duck, and 300 common merganserst were observed at Lake Cochichewick.

?West Roxbury: At Millennium Park, there was a wood duck, a bald eagle, a red-headed woodpecker, 400 fish crows, a fox sparrow, and two rusty blackbirds.

?Miscellaneous: Reports included a greater white-fronted goose at the Dow Brook Reservoir in Ipswich; a canvasback and a snowy owl in East Gloucester; a Barrow’s goldeneye in Fairhaven; a little blue heron at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in East Boston; an ash-throated flycatcher at Danehy Park in Cambridge; 47 tree swallows at Gooseberry Neck beach in Westport; and the continued presence of a yellow-throated warbler in Hingham.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.